Re: [linux-dvb] WinTV HVR-900 USB (B3C0)
hi, --- On Wed, 12/9/09, Rob Beard r...@esdelle.co.uk wrote: From: Rob Beard r...@esdelle.co.uk Subject: Re: [linux-dvb] WinTV HVR-900 USB (B3C0) To: Lukasz Sokol el_es...@yahoo.co.uk Cc: linux-...@linuxtv.org, linux-media@vger.kernel.org Date: Wednesday, December 9, 2009, 10:34 AM On 09/12/2009 09:16, Lukasz Sokol wrote: Rob Beard wrote: Hi folks, I've borrowed a WinTV HVR-900 USB stick from a friend of mine to see if I can get any reception in my area before forking out for one however I've run in to a couple of problems and wondered if anyone had used one of these sticks? [snip] I just wondered if anyone else had one of these sticks actually working under Ubuntu 9.10? (I'm running kernel 2.6.31-16-generic-pae). Rob I've been using one (AxC0 I think) for years until the hardware died earlier this year. I think I bought it 2006, not quite sure when exactly. I think what killed it was that it was working permanently for 1,5years, so it probably overheated somwhen in the summer. But it was working fine with analog and dvb signal. Hi Rob, this device uses empia chips. I have a similar situation with Pinnacle Hybrid Pro 330e (yes, 3_3_0e) : the only driver that works (and was great at it) was Markus Rechberger's em28xx-new project. (my device has cx88 tuner IIRC). The em28xx-new project had some modifications to some tuner drivers too. They were based both on RE and documentation for which Markus had NDA's signed (a vague recollection of past googling). I've never used the in-kernel module rather the v4l-dvb one for this specific card. I even did not compiled it recently. The mainline kernel unfortunately does not support it out of the box, and it is not only about the firmware you have to download; There is something severely nonfunctional. Why am I writing in past tense ? This driver (em28xx-new) has recently been abandoned, and its author went proprietary. I was using a ubuntu package prepared by some ubuntu user, named gborzi. Unfortunately the package cannot apply to more recent kernels any more. The last kernel it worked with, was 2.6.27-14 (Ubuntu terminology) and I'm stuck with it. I have emailed Markus but he seems to have lost any interest in the em28xx-new... can't blame him though, he gave his reasons, some of them unfortunately true. To v4l developers : as it is the case now that we can consider em28xx-new abandonware, could somebody see, what got devices like ours working in his driver, and push it to mainline, please ? Just the DVB support would be fine... To Markus : the above is not a call to _steal_your_code_ but merely to somebody have a look and modify the mainline drivers so it could support A 5 YEAR OLD DEVICE like mine. People could employ a 'clean room' like in alternative to Broadcom (b43) development. At least mine, is a 5 YEARS OLD design (bought in 2006). On my computer, which was middle spec 5 years ago, I've always had problems with this device under Windows (XP) : 100% CPU on max frequency (1.6GHz) all the time, when playing. Under Linux, stock Ubuntu 8.10 Kaffeine, and em28xx-new, it is max 30% CPU at lowest freq (800MHz)). Stock em28xx driver only supports analog (with no sound under stock tvtime, supposedly patched tvtime required). el es Thanks for the heads up, I think I'll have a look and see what else is available out there then, luckily I only borrowed it to test if it would work. I'm using now terratec for about 30€. There were again problems with the drivers so I'm compiling again the v4l-dvb code. I don't see anything wrong to do it on your own. regards -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-media in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Re: [linux-dvb] Dual tuner DVB-T card on Linux
any card would do it. I'm using a program called getstream. It demultiplexes a stream so you can record it with a program like mencoder. regards --- On Fri, 11/6/09, shacky shack...@gmail.com wrote: From: shacky shack...@gmail.com Subject: [linux-dvb] Dual tuner DVB-T card on Linux To: linux-...@linuxtv.org Date: Friday, November 6, 2009, 4:52 PM Hi. Could you help me to find any DVB-T dual input/tuner card that work with Linux without problems? I need to record two programs in the same time with MythTV.. Thank you very much! Bye. ___ linux-dvb users mailing list For V4L/DVB development, please use instead linux-media@vger.kernel.org linux-...@linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-dvb -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-media in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Re: [linux-dvb] Best USB or PCMCIA DVB card for linux users ?
--- On Wed, 9/16/09, H. Langos henrik-...@prak.org wrote: From: H. Langos henrik-...@prak.org Subject: Re: [linux-dvb] Best USB or PCMCIA DVB card for linux users ? To: a dehqan dehqa...@gmail.com Cc: linux-...@linuxtv.org Date: Wednesday, September 16, 2009, 4:34 PM Hello Dehqan, On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 12:42:38AM +0430, a dehqan wrote: In The Name Of God I'll be thankful if you guide ; What is The best USB or PCMCIA DVB card for linux users ? In the name of the flying spaghetti monster. You chances of getting a usefull reply would be greatly improved if you stated some more information. Like the kind of DVB you are talking about. Is it DVB-S(2)/C/T or ATCS ? He's asking for DVB-T advice Are you sure you are looking for a PCMCIA (rather PC-Card/CadBus) card? If your notebook is very new than you probably already have ExpressCard slots instead of PC-Card. He's asking for USB or PCMCIA - the point is good mentioning the new express standard I would ask him how much he's ready to pay. I was using one HVR900 (Haupauge but won't recommend it) Now I'm using one Terratec T USB XXS It's much better then the HVR900 one + it's supported + it's smaller + costs in Austria about 38€ + has remote control (also working) - it's not in the main kernel code - as far as I understood it will be supported in 2.6.32 line - it is sold with different prod IDs 0078 00ab which makes it necessary to touch the v4l-dvb code regards -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-media in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Terratec T USB XXS 0ccd:00ab device
Hello, I've just subscribed this list. I'm normally using knode to read news, but somehow I can not pull the groups etc from the vger server. I also tried to post to linux-dvb mailing list, but found out that it moved here. If you think I need to know something explicitly about participating to the list, please let me know. The issue I'm facing is that my old TV card (HVR900) stopped working, so I googled around and decided to buy Terratec T USB XXS, reading it was supported in dvb_usb_dib0700 However after installing the card (usb-stick) it was not recognized (my one has product id 0x00ab and not 0x0078), so I googled again and found a hint to change the device id in dvb_usb_ids.h which was working for other Terratec card. I pulled the latest v4l-dvb code and did it (perhaps I could have done it in the kernel 2.6.31), compiled, installed and it started working. However I can not handle udev to get the remote control links created correctly. Can someone help me with it? How can I provide useful output to developers to solve the issues with ir? I read and saw that ir control keys are coded in the driver, so if the ir part of the 0x00ab card is different, how can I get a useful information that can be coded for this card? Who is doing the work at linux-dvb? I read there are other people, returning the cards to the seller, because it's not working/supported by linux, which does not seem to be really true. Luckilly I have a bit kernel experience and good C knowledge and could do testing if somebody can have a look at the issues - the code is completely new to me so that I prefer to be an alpha tester for the device. thanks for patience in advance and kind regards -- pub 1024D/648C084C 2008-06-06 Emanoil Kotsev emanoil.kot...@sicherundsicher.at Primary key fingerprint: 002C AF99 232A 5A44 EF9E 6D7D 0D65 4160 648C 084C signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
